Cranial Landmarks

15 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Glabella
Answer 1
Most anterior point of forehead, at level of supraorbital ridges
Opisthocranion
Posterior-most point on skull
Euryon
Answer 3
Points of greatest breadth of cranium, on parietal bone
Nasion
Answer 4
Point where frontal bone meets nasal bones
Alveolare
Answer 5
Point between central maxillary incisors
Zygion
Answer 6
Most lateral point of the zygomatic arch
Basion
Answer 7
Midpoint on anterior margin of foramen magnum
Frontotemporale
Answer 8
Most medial point of the temporal ridge (temporal ridge/line = where temporal muscle attaches)
Ectoconchion
Most lateral point of most lateral wall of orbit, on the line bisecting the orbit
Cranial length (glabella to opisthocranion)
Answer 10
Cranial breadth (Euryon to euryon)
Answer 11
Bizygomatic breadth
Answer 12
Temporal ridge/line
Answer 13
Attachment temporalis muscle
Minimum frontal breadth (frontotemporale to frontotemporale)
Answer 14
Biorbital breadth (ectoconchion to ectoconchion)
Answer 15